Lettering-guide.



N0- 808,422. PATENTED DEC. 26, 1905. C. H. WILSON & F. MABULEN.

LETTERING GUIDE.

APPLICATION FILED rm. s. 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LETTERING-GUIDE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 1905.

Application filed February 6, 1905. Serial No. 244,404.

'device comprises a body member and a guide member which acts as afinder and in addition to locating the spot upon which the type is to beimpressed also tendsto guide the type to such spot and, furthermore,serves to accurately define the proper distance between the severalletters in the production of a word.

Another purpose of the invention is toprovide a device especiallyadapted for use in lettering mechanical and other drawings.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is aperspective view of the complete device, illustrating themanner in which it is used. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device, andFig. 3 is a vertical transverse section taken practically on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

A represents a ruler having a longitudinal groove 10 about centrallylocated in one side edge and a longitudinal recess 11 in its bottomportion at its opposite side edge, as

illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3.

B represents the paper or surface upon which the impressions are to bemade.

The device is usually made from one piece of sheet metal and comprises abody-section C and a guide-section C. The body-section consists of aflat upper portion 12, having a tongue 13 formed therein, and saidtongue for the major portion of its length has frictional engagementwith the upper face of the ruler A, upon which said body is mounted toslide, and usually at the free end of the tongue 13 a projection 14 isproduced to provide a finger-hold for operation when moving the saidbody C on the ruler A.

In the further construction of the body C of the device a horizontalinwardly-extending flange 15 is shaped at one side edge of the body, theinwardly-extending portion of said flange being adapted to enter thegroove 10 in the ruler A, while at the opposite side edge of the body Cthe material is bent downward and inward to form a second side flange16, the bottom member whereof, as is shown in Fig. 3, enters the recess11 in the ruler when the device is applied thereto.

The guide-section C of the device is located at that side of thebody-section C carrying the flange 15 and extends upward therefrom. Thisguide-section consists of a member 17, whose outer face is flush andparallel with the said side edge of the body, and a second member 18 atright angles to the member 17 extending outwardly from the left --handside edge of the member 17 and downward across the edge of the rulerhaving the groove 10, so that when the device is upon the ruler thelower edge of the member 18 will closely approach the paper or surfaceupon which the ruler is laid to act in the capacity of a finder,locating the exact space in which the letter is to be printed, and thesaid downwardly-extending end of the member 18 acts as a spacer also, asafter one letter or figure is printed and it is to be followed byanother, if the downwardly-extending portion of the member 18 is carriedclose to the right-hand edge of the last letter printed, the next lettercan be accurately located, because the type 19 is secured to a bar 20,rectangular in cross-section, and in producing the impression the bar iscarried downward in engagement with the members 17 and 18 of theguidesection,where the said members join, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

As a letter or figure is printed the bodysection C is slid by hand alongthe ruler. The flange 16 is continuous; but by reason of theguide-section C being struck up from the body-section C the flange 15occurs only at the end portions of the body, as is shown in Fig. 1.

WVhere the body 0 and the guide-section C connect, a brace 21 ispreferably supplied, and in order to strengthen the guide-section C acorrugation 22 is usually produced therein where the members 17 and 18join.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. A lettering-guide, consisting of abodysection, means for slidably mounting the same upon a support, and aguidesection struck up from the body-section and angular incrosssection, extending vertically from an edge of the body-section.

2. A lettering-guide, consisting of a body: section, means for slidablymounting the same upon a support, and a guide-section ex tendingvertically from an edge of the bodysection, being integral with thebody-section the said guide-section comprising two members, one at rightangles to the other.

3. A lettering-guide, consisting of a bodysection, means for slidablymounting the same upon a support, and a guide-section extendingverticallv from an edge of the bodysection, said guide-sectioncomprising two members, one at right angles to the other, both extendingabove the body-section and same upon a support, and a guide-sectionangular transversely, extending vertically from an edge of thebody-section, the latter being formed with a friction tongue struck uptherefrom.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES H. WILSON. FREDERICK MAEULEN.

Witnesses to signature of Charles H. VVilson:

CAROLYN E. W1LsoN, WILLIAM WILSON, Jr.

Witnesses to signature of Frederick Maeul6I1Z H. W. KESNER, D. H.PEPPER.

